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Wordy Wednesday (“Stupid and Young”)

A) A massive storm blew through my area and tore out seven of the trees in our yard (we’re in a woodsy area, so there are a lot more where that came from, but still). My backyard looked like the set of a disaster film over the weekend. We’ve got it mostly cleaned up now, but there are still a couple of dead trees that we just aren’t quite sure what to do with, so hopefully no more storms come through and decide to make the already crappy situation any worse.

B) That same storm also blew the power out, and we were without air conditioning or freezer-type food (read that as ice cream) for two days. During which we were outside in the heat, chopping up fallen trees. NO ESTUVE UNA CAMPISTA FELIZ.

C) Because of the lack-de-electricity, I also couldn’t work at all on writing-related stuff over the weekend. Which made me look like this:

I really need to learn how to use GIFs so I can stop posting such terrible pictures of myself.

D) But then the electricity came back (air conditioning! hot water! iPhone and laptop and AIR CONDITIONING!), and yesterday I got an email with some pretty freaking awesome news which kinda, sorta made up for all the bad stuff over the weekend.

I spent the better part of yesterday alternating between floating on cloud nine and trying to figure out what exactly winning first place means (apparently Writer’s Digest is publishing a collection of the winning stories in November? what?). I’ll make sure to keep you updated on what happens. (And if you’re looking for getting news a little quicker, these days I’m sharing more of these small-detail types of things on my Facebook page than here.)

In other news, though, it’s time to move on to what I’m actually writing this post for: this week’s Wordy Wednesday. We had a tie for short story and poem/song lyrics, so–since we just had a short story last week, let’s go with a song this time.

This is “Stupid and Young,” which I wrote earlier this summer. I was trying to tell the story of someone who was falling in love with their best friend, only to have him leave. (I feel like we’re on an especially depressing stint of WWs here. Sorry about that.)

UPDATE: Here’s a really crappy recording of the song. I did it in one take, without warming up or tuning my guitar or anything, so emphasis on the “crappy.” But it’ll give you an idea of how it should sound. (Also: I look like I’m in pain throughout the majority of this video. I’m not really sure why. I apologize.)

PS. Figured I’d mention just one more thing: Cadence was in the 2013 Xmas in July novel pitch contest, which happened last week, and it garnered requests from three awesome agents! If you’d like to go check out what that’s all about, here’s a link to my entry.

PPS. There are currently a bunch of birds chirping right outside my window. I feel like a Disney princess.

what a great song, i wish you had recorded your self doing it though because it’s been a while scince we’ve been blessed wiht the live action on julia and i miss it. congrats on thw writing win and it’s too bad about the fallen trees and opower outage thing. but luckily the worst of that seems to be over.

I keep meaning to record stuff, but that involves changing out of my pajamas, which seems like too much effort right now. 😛 Thank you, and yeah–not to jinx myself (knock on wood), but it looks like the bad weather’s over for now!